Other owners:Pitt Rivers sent this object to Bethnal Green Museum for display
by ?early 1874.

Notes:Black book entry - Screen 2 6. Shield 'Murukanye', shewing a still greater increase
in width (49)Delivery Catalogue II entry - Shields from different localities. Wood shield, murukanye. Australia
49Accession Book IV entry -Tamarang [sic] of light wood of similar shape and cross-section, decorated
with 2 long undulating lines with connecting bars. N Australia
[Drawing]Card Catalogue entry - ALF 49. North Australia. 49 = 6 black. Lenticular parrying-shield,
tamarang, of light wood, cross-section 'segment of circle' form,
decorated with two long undulating lines with connecting bars.
Original Pitt Rivers collection.Written on object - (in white ink) "Murukanye" N Australia PR 49. On label - Printed label on object '6'. Hand-written label on object 'Shield
Australia 275'Other information - Displayed in Bethnal Green and South Kensington Museums (V&A).
The shield is made of a heavy wood. The handle is carved from
the whole. The front is decorated but the inside of the shield
is plain. The front has grooved wavy line decoration running from
top to bottom with lines of hatching from side to side cutting
across the longitudinal wavy lines. The ends are also decorated
with hatched lines. Red and white pigment has been used, some
of which has been lost. The lines are lightly incised in most
places, in some parts it is deeper than others. PR number: 49